Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (1837 - 1880)


Jules Jacquemart
Chez Berne-Bellecour

titled, signed, dated in the plate
Imp A. Salmon for Gazette des Beaux-Arts
Sep '75
5 x 8 1/2 inches (image)
7 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (sheet, laid, watermarked paper)

$150



Jacquemart was the son of a collector/scholar of china and bibelots, which helps explain the artist’s reputation as an etcher of objets d’art. One French expert went so far as to attribute a new genre of art, that of portraying such objects, to Jacquemart. F. L. Leipnik in his 1924 History of French Etching writes that Jacquemart “made his fellow-artists see the hidden beauties of the inanimate.”

Jacquemart also etched copies of well-known paintings and portraits of his contemporaries. Our etching, Chez Berne-Bellecour, is very similar to a much more detailed etching by fellow artist Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour titled Coquetterie, the latter published in 1876.




Bellecour
Etienne Prosper Berne-Bellecour etching titled Coquetterie (From Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)